TROPIDOCEPHALA. 



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Conicoda, Mah. Eiit. Nach. xxvi. p. 2r)S (1900). 

 Ectopioptervgodelphax, Kirlc. li'-jt. JJ.rp. Sfat. Hair. I'/a/if. Assoc. 



l^H/l.i,\x4]-2 (1906). 

 Snuvra, Disf. (vol. iii, p. 478). 



Dr. Malsuniunx in monographing the genus 'froitidocepJidln, 

 Stfil, has proposed a considerable amount of generic synonymy, 

 which is hei'e ap|)arently followed, and tlie genus is thus shown 

 to have a very wide Old World distribution. Matsunnn-a has, 

 however, figured the vertex of the species he has identified as 

 T. fcstiva, Dist. as considerably larger and more elongate than in 

 the type, while the pattern of the tegmina is altogether different. 



The type of Trojndocephala is, T.JIauiceps, Stfil, a South African 

 species and one which 1 have not seen, nor has Matsumura, for he 

 does not figure the species and only copies Stfil's description, hut 

 he is able to figure T.brunn-ipennis, Sign., which Stfil also inchided 

 in his genus. 



3329. Tropidocepliala luteola, Dist. A. M. X. H. (8) ix, p. 193 (1912). 



Head, pronotum, and mesonotum greenish ochraceous, lateral 

 areas of the pro- and mesonota more or less infuscated, sometimes 

 scarcely so; antennfe black; abdomen above black, the basal area 

 more or less transversely testaceous ; body beneatii black ; face 

 brownish ochraceous, the cariuations paler ; legs ochraceous ; 

 tegmina pale fuscous brown irrorated with greyish white, the 

 principal pale markings being an elongate spot in clavus, an 

 irregular transverse macular fascia near middle, counnencing on 



Fig. 103. — Tr<ipidocepJi((h( luleohi. 



costal margin and becoming more macular and indistinct towards 

 the inner margin, a cluster of about three spots on costal mem- 

 brane immediately beyond the transverse fascia, and distinct apical 

 marginal spots; wings hyaline with the veins darker; vertex 

 louo-er than broad, considerably shorter than breadth between 

 outer margins of eyes and only moderately projecting in front of 

 eyes, distinctly, strongly tricarinate ; i)ro- and mesonota strongly 

 tricarinate ; face tricarinate, projecting considerably above eyes, 

 greatest width about half its length. 



Length excl. tegm. 2 ; exp. tegm. millim. 



Hab. Bengal; Fusa (Xe/Vo//, Brit. Mus.); Calcutta (/«(/. Mas.). 



A species to be distingm'shed by the very short vertex of the 

 head. 



